Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 January 1884 — Page 4

SOCIETY.

Marriage and Luxury.

HEARCROMER

Algernon Cbarle9 Bwinburne.

Sea beyond sea, sand after sweep of sand, Here Ivory smooth, bere cloven and ridged with flow

Of ohanneled waters softas ralo or snow, Stretch their lone length at ease beneath the bland stray gleam of steles whose smile on wave and strand

Shines weary like a man'* who smiles to know That now no dream can mock his faith with show, fcor cloud tor him .seem living sea or land. Is there an end at aii of this waste. These crumbling cllflfe defeatured and 'a defaced,

These ruinous heights of sea-sapped wall that slide Bsaward with all their banks of bleak blown flowers

Glad yet of life, ere yet their hopes snbI side lv{Beneath the coll of dull dense waves and hours?

Home ComSort. -'i'

Hickory wood 1b the fashionable fuel Lijjugt now, and wood boxes are being lihandsomely decorated. Some are coy&<ered with plush in a shade to match !the furnishing of the room, and have dainty designs liand-paiated upon them. Others p.re_ made of stamped leather in octagon shape, and have tassels made of worsted ornamenting the ends. Those made of bamboo are kXnore sensible and less extravagant [than any of the others, and they look almost as decorative. They are adorned simply with a piece of pale blue or scarlet ribbon.

The small, cheap, colored silk handkerchiefs are now, as little novelties, being quilted inside, with atrong sachet powder in the lining, edged with coffeecolored lace, and fastened together in vthe center by the corners with a bow t- Of satin ribbon. Another style of

pocket-handkerchief sachet intended to hold handkerchiefs in a drawer, can be made of plain-colored cotton-backed Batin, with two pockets on one side (the top, when folded) a white handerchief with fancy border is folded and arranged with four pearl-headed pins, and stitches in the center. New perambulator covers of old gold satin, with a border worked in large cross-stitch in black silk, and a good-sized monogram in the left-hand lower corner, look well.

The table-cover, made of plush and ornamented with a border in cross..stitch, is very handsome. The material is olive green plush, and- the canvas of an old gold color, worked in olive green and read crewels. A worsted fringe trims the cover all round.

The design for patchwork given is particularly suitable for silk. Enlarged St could be effectively used as a center ior a crazy patchwork table cover, bed quilt or antimacassar. Only two colors of silk should be used. Any more spoils the effect. The border of Indian embroidery is executed in silks on a ground of pale blue plush. The remainder of the cover is made of rich claret-colored plush. It is lined with palest blue silk,and has a worsted fringe to match.

The ueual way of decorating the back of a piano for a ball is with a curtain or piece of embroidery gracefully arranged but we have also seen the palmnand-screen, on which leaves and flowers have been sewed, attached to the piano in patterns, three in the center and one at each corner, with greenery between, so that the back was converted into a parterre of flowers, from experience we would suggest that all such floral adornment Bhould be most securely fastened on, of pieces of leaves become detached as the daneers whirl around, and adhere to the dresses. A piece of ruby or gold-col ored satin covering the piano, draped with three Syrian curtains, one along the top and the other two at the sides, look very well. As the satin is not very wide, several yards will be required, but both it and the curtains are durable, and come in for use afterward. Another fashionable way is to fix a glass on the back, and paint a spray, or rather branch of laburnum right across then hide the edges with a festooned length of Indian yellow silk, looping up with gilt chains or strings of beads.

To decorate straw chairs, first paint and varnish them the color desired. Then line the seat and back with chintz or serge cloth or silk or any material you prefer. Out an extra paper pattern of the size of the seat of the chair, and then a pattern for the back. Out out of common brown holland two pieces each of these sizes, of course not forgetting to allow a good margin for the trimmings. Two inches over this material lay your wadding with which you are going to pad it and over that tho second piece of holland. A strip two or three inches wide is required for the sides and depth of the cushion. Pin this and the edges together to keep the wool in its place until you Bew it on, and then tieihe wadding through at intervals to form diamonds. When this is complete cover this on both sides with tapestry., plush or cloth.—[American Queen.

Elegant Foot Gear.

"Very elegant though somewhat simpler foot gear is now worn on dreasy ossasions, the high Mollere shoe of glossy black kid, or Batin, cut out in points at the ankle, and closed with elastic and three bows corresponding with the dress trimming, is very much admired the low slipper with streps across or openworked is also a great favorite, lastly, the so-called drawingroom shoe, ornamented above with one or two small ribbons or velvet bows placed beside each other, and often embroidered with chei^lle answering to the design of the toilette. The latter is intended especially for short evening toilettes for young ladies. We should advise our readers when purchasing such chaussure to choose black or the largest shade agreeing with their dress, as they are more becoming and make the foot look smaller. All very light colors have a tendency to increase the size of our nether points, and should therefore be avoided. Brides' shoes are an exception to this rule.

Silk Btockings, the same color as the dress, are worn by little girls in very short skirts, trimmed above with a band of ribbon and a rosette or bow ou one side below the knee low shoes oS black Swedish leather give a suitable finish.—The Season.

Hints for Housekeepers.

2ew York Commercial Advertiser. Non-destructive majolica is a new German invention. •.

Heavy canton flannel should be laid beneath the table-cloth. Brass-legged tables are fashionable upon which to serve afternoon tea.

Talc is used as a decorative material, and the effect under gaslight is brilliant.

A frieze of rich red ground with raised Oriental poppies is anew thing in wall paper.

Dining tables are now square-cor-nered mahogany instead of roundcornered black walnut.

To remove orange stain from crape or any black material, wet the spots with pure spirits of hartshorn and lay in tho sun continue the process until the stain is removed.

A new attachment, by which a globe may be placed temporarily or permanently upon a gas bracket that is without the frame work usually made to hold the globe, is patented.

MelL one-half on ace mutton fat, one ounce gnm camphor and one ounce glycerine beat up with a fork, set it away in small pots rub some on the hands every night, aud it will render the skin smooth and soft.

A Japani-sf.ii-Ti'...rella suspended by its handle may be made to serve as a very acceptable lantern by arranging around the handle a few tin sockets to bold candles, which, being lighted, throw a tempered light down through the colored paper of the umbrella. iJThe best wav to clean mirrors, the glaas of mctures. etc.. is to take a soft eponge, wash it well in clean water

and squeeze it as dry as possible dip it in some spirits of wine and rub over the glass then have some powdered blue tied up in a ratr, dust it over your glass and rub it lightly and quickly with a soft cloth afterward finish with a Ik handkerchief. tfeg

Female Freaks and Fancies.

Cupid is the greatest slay-belle in the worla. To the ladies: Marriage 13 ever a mister-y but anvihing is better tuan perpetual miss-ery.

A beautiful and accomplished heiress does not need to take advantage of leap year. She is already engaged— in rejecting proposals.

A Ridge wood woman who asked a favor ana was refused, told the gentleman that when his wife died she would marry him for his meanness.

Mme. Sarah Bernhardt did not live in America a year for nothing. After having mastered "Yankee Doodle" she is now practicing "Whale Colombier!"

A woman who compels her poor husband to carry up coal three times a day from a dark cellar may be considered smart, but we consider her husband much martyr.

No girl ought to think of marriage until she can wash and iron. She can't get along well unless she knows how to smooth her husbands bosom when it becomes ruffled.

A religious paper has an article entitled, "How to Make a Wife Insane." Easily done. Tell her that the woman next door* is prettier and a better housekeeper than she la. That'll do it.

A Cincinnati woman elaped last fall wjith an old man 93 years of age. Now has deserted her. This out, to teach omen not to be too fast to elope with young and giddy youths. Tnese old boys are sometimes fickle.

Mr. Haygood, of Atlanta, has a paper of pins that he bought when he Was married. He has been using them ever sinie, and there are enough of them left to last the rest, of his life. How he has managed to keep them out of Mrs. Haygood's reach is not stated.

Mrs. Jones—Do you know, dear, that, you promised to buy me a seal-skin sacque for a Christmas present Mr. Jones—Why, no, dear I had forgotten that. When was it? Mrs. Jones— About three weeks ago. Mr. Jones— Oh, yes I remember now but that was before the gas bill came in.

Twenty young ladies of one church in Philadelphia have been married within two months. The influx of new female members since the last wedding has been enormous, but a corresponding falling off in the attendance of njales is confidently expected. If they can catch twenty husbands in two nionths of an off year, goodness only knows what luck they will have during leap year, if the material will only hold out.

Facts About Women.

Mme. Lucca says she has two offers from America for next season, one for 6,000, the other for 10,000 francs per evening, and that she will accept'one of the two.

A company of twelve Viennese swordswomen, frho are said to be as remarkable for their beauty as their s^ill, Wili soon arrive in Paris, to give a series of entertainments and try tneir strength with some of the leading French amateurs.

Mrs. Emma S. Phiney, the American sculptor who has just died in &ome, bad among her works the busts of President Garfield and Governor Dieiiison, of Ohio, and a recently finished and very clever Cupid sharpening his arrow. jMrs. Anna Irion, whose home when a girl was in Bucks county, Texas, was the young woman who buckled the sword of Gen. Houston around that veteran just before the battle of San Jacinto. Her death in Bryan, Texas, wjas an occurrence of a few days ago. "Kate Field is perhaps the most versatile woman living," says a correspondent of the Cleveland Herald. "She is something of an actress, something of an writer, something of a singer, something of a lecturer, and something of a fashion expert but, unfortunately, she excels in none of these occupations."

An instance known to our readers, says a Dakota paper, is that a young widow who came to Lisbon, took a pre-emption claliii to 160 acres, proved up and got a title to her land, and then took another claim under the homestead law of 160 acres, on which she is now living and, as the possessor of 320 aoreB of the richest soil of God's foot-stool, she is, of course, considered worth having, and several bachelors in the vicinity are glaring at each other with fire in their eyes and harted in their hearts towards their rivals.

WONDERS IN DRESS.

An Artistic Toilet That Has Jfe»«r Bean Surpassed on the New York Stage Special Correspondence to the Inter

Ooean.

Mrs. Langtry,the professional beauty, was assaulted by Charles Coghlan, the actor, in my presence, on Monday evening. Coghlan had long been a friend of her husband, and, while a guest at their home, abuser! his privi leges by making love to the wife. They were in a luxuriously furnished parlor and wearing fine evening clothes. Her own costume was perfection. I base this estimate of it, firstly, on my own general perception of its graceful shapeliness and artistic arrangement of colors, and, ascondly, on a woman more minute and expert recollection of its qualities The material was light Hue satin which was at the top a great deal below her neck, and at the bottom as much longer than her heels. The bodice was cut in the new style of lowness that is to say the shoulders were bared in the same section with the bosom, instead of being separated by straps. I am enjoined dv

my guide in

this matter to be particular describing the decoration of the dress, and am further led to regard highly the importance of the subject by the fact that the name of the maker of the garment bad been advertised quite as conspicuously as that of the playwright whose piece she wore it in. Scattered over the skirt were double bows of blue head-work and these had the semblance of being tied round the stems of poppies, which were embroidered, like the leaves, in fine chenile. Tha flowers, in several shades of their natural red, were ex quisite counterfeits of the fragrant reality, sewed loosly on the satin. The effect was novel and exquisite, even to purblind male appreciation. On her left breast a blue ostrich plume was fastened by a crescent of ubiea and diamonds, the feather reaching to her arm. The toilet was not exceptional in cost, but in artistic excellence it has not been surpassed on the New York stage.

Dickena' "Old Curiosity Shop. Bt. James' Gazette. The old house selected by Charles Dickens as the scene of many of the incidents recorded in the "Old Curi osity Shop" is about to be demolished in consequence of its dangerous condition. The house is No. 14 Portsmouth street, Lincoln-inn-fields. Information reached the metropolitan board of works late on Christmas Eve that the "old curiosity shop" and the two adjoining houses were colapsing. The contractors to the board were immediately instructed to shore the houses up, and during Christmas day were busily engaged in doing

bo.

On Box

ing dav many visitors went to the spot, among*them being several Americans, who appeared to take a lively interest in all that was being done and were moat anxious to have a peep inside the old shop. The premises appeared to be used as a store for waste paper, the adjoining houses being let out in tenements.

R. J. Bnrdette is 40, BretHarte is 45, Mark Twain is 48, and W. D. Howells is 46.

THE BLACK BUOY.

BY ABTHUH W. BBAOT.

"Swim said my grandmother, as we sat around the crackling logs one Christmas Eve. "Ever boy and girl should learn to swim. I could swim like a duck when I was a girl, and there came a time when it served me in fiood stead 1"

My grandmother «at bolt opright in her highbacked chair, resting her elbows on the arms, and smiled across at the general, who sat on the other side of the hearth. There was a conscious look in her bright old eyes. My grandfather, pausing in the act of raising his tumbler to his lips nodded and smiled back again. They were both white-haired, bright-eyed and fresh-colored each saw the other through an effacing^-medium, which smoothed out wrinkles, restored hyacinthe locks and blotted out the fifty years that lay between them and youth.

We, the diverse-aged descendants of this stately pair, were grouped in lazy attitudes around the vast, roaring hearth, with its tall, carved chimneypiece, and as we saw the meaning looks that were exchanged between our respected progenitors, we scented story.

My grandmother hesitated for a moment at our many voiced appeal, and shook her head then looked across at the general, who nodded again, and after a little pressure thus began: "You know, young people, that you are of good family only on your grand father's side and not on mine, for he came of an old and honorable Btock, while my father was only the master of a vessel that traded between England and the West Indies. He was killed in a sea fight when I was a child and I was brought up by my grandfather, who, ostensibly a boatbuilder and fisherman, -waa in. reality a smuggler. In those days smuggling meant great risks and. enormous profits. It was not only a profitable trade, but it was reputable ma peculiar sort of way. It re_ skill and courage. England was always at war in those days and the smuggler had to run the risk of being snapped up by an enemy's cruiser as well as the chance of falling into the clutches of a revenue cutter. In addition there were the inevitable risks of the sea. "Thus a smuggler must possess a knowledge of navigation. He had to work into harbor on the darkest nights with the utmost secrecy and despatch. To do that he must know every inch of his way, be able to distinguish landmarks and buoys in what would seem to the unitiated to be blank darkness, and to know to a nicety at what times the tide turned, the twists of sand banks and the position of sunken rocks. "There was only one channel lead' ing into the harbor, for the mouth of our little river was choked with

Band,

and the banks extended out to sea. It was necessary to hit this channel some distance out at. sea, and a small black buoy bobbed up and down to indicate its commencement. One side of tho harbor was found by a line of rocks shelving down gradually into the water, and the buoy was distant from the extremity of these rocks about three-quarters of a mile, or a little more. This headland was called the Point. "The blaek buoy, a mere speck on the waters, was hard enough for any one to find in the broad day, but my grandfather never failed to find it in the dark—for, of course, it was only on a moonless night that the smusglers dared to run a cargo. The usual course of proceeding was this: The lugger arrived off our coast at night-

ugger arrived on our coasi at nigl 'all, lay to until a signal was flashed from our friends on Bhore, flashed a reply, found the entrance to the channel. and worked in with the tide. "I had a very independent kind of lite, getting a good deal of book learning from the old vicar and passing many hours in the bright sunshine and the free fresh air. I could run a couple of miles, and pull an oar, and swim with the best. The sea had no terrors or difficulties for me, except such as it was a pleasure to overcome. So at sixteen I waB a fresh-colored, freelimbed, and, I believe, bright-eyed maiden, whose only trouble was ner long tresses of thick brown hair, and who thought very little of the outside world. "On a certain day in September, my grandfather being absent and expected back at night, I set off for along ramble in the country, taking some sandwiches with me for dinner. At nightfall I was returning, tired and hungry, when I paused on the cliffs for a moment to take a last look around before striking into the path that led to the village. With a sigh of contented fatigue I turned homeward, when I recollected that a little Buit of blue surge, which I used for bathing, required some trifling repairs. I kept it in a little cave not far from the gully up which our contraband goods

UBed

to be

conveyed. So without approaching the village I hastened to the cave by the shortest route. I passed down the gully, slipped into the cave, and felt about for my dress. Having found it, I was juBt about to come out again, when a strange sound broke the stillneES of the night, and I stopped short. Apparently coming from the gully I heard the tramp of feet and the noise of voices, and a queer, little, thin sound, but curiously distinct—the clink of steel. "I peered out cautiously. Two men emerged from the gully. They had long cloaks on, but, by the clank of their arms and the manner of their bearing, I knew them to be eoldiers. "fhey were talking in low voices but I could hear what they said, for the night was very

BtilL

r"This

is the place, sir,' said one,

who seemed to be the elder. 'The goods are landed here, and carried up this gully: The carts stand at the head of the guilty, where we came down.'

The other, the careless ease of whose bearing, coupled with the deferential manner of his companion, showed him to be an officer, had a paper in his hand. He looked around him, up and down the little revine, evidently taking in the features of the place.

Very well,' he said, speaking in a full, low" tone that I well remember 'I shall post half the men here, and place the rest at intervals between this and the village to atop any one who attempts to pass. At S :15 ths tide turned. At 12 the signal. You understand the signal don't yon "The sergeant produced a lantern from under his cloak. 'Here is the signal, sir.' 'Then order th«J men down, and place the others as you think best' "The sergeant saluted, and clanked up the gully. The officer walked slowly towards "the water, and stood there at the edge—some distance from me, for the tide was low—with his head bowed and his handB behind his back. Now or never for me to getaway. Quick as thought I slipped out of my hiding place and hastened up the gully. Horror! at the head of it was a string of dark figures winding methodically down, their heads every now and then bobbing up and down against the twilight sky. The rocks were steep, but not high, and I was half way np them in an instant. Behind a sheltering ledge I crouched, scarcely daring to breathe, while they inarched, tramp, tramp, silentiy down the ravine. "They passed out of sight. I heard an order given in a sharp, clear tone, the rattle of arms, and all was still. Then I breathed again. I looked to the head of the gully, and there, athwart the sky, appeared at intervals a black figure. A sentinel was posted there.

Up to moment I had only thought of escaping and arousing some of our friends in the villas®. It would be hard if we could not devise some means of warning the lugger of her

danger. Now that Hope was gone, for my return to the village was cut off. Stall every one must know what was going on, and would not some one slip out a boat? How could they? The tide was low the only channel even for a small boat was close to the lower end of the gully, and the soldiers could prevent anyone passing out. "I covered my face with my hands, and busied myself to think. There could be no reasonable doubt why the soldiers had been brought twenty miles at least, to our little village. Penal servitude for life! What aid that mean? It was no uncommon punishment, I had heard, for a smuggler taken as my grandfather would surely be red-hanaed. For a moment the hope flashed into my head that he might not come to-night. But no1 The wind was light and not unfavorable, there was no suggestion of a fortunate storm in the sky, and I knew that the people with the carts had arranged to come, and that all was in readiness. My heart sank within me *,Suddewly I raised my head and tormed a bold resolve. 1 would save him. Yes, I! The skill which I had attained for my own heedless pleasure should be put to stern service. I determined that when the lugger showed her signal in answer to that treacherous one from the shore I would swim out to the buoy and keep myself afloat at the entrance to the channel until I could hail our people and warn them of their danger. "I never hesitated after I had formed this resolution. I forgot that I was hungry and tired, and began instantly to make my preparations. On the narrow ledge of rock where I now knelt I undressed and put on my little bathing costume, which consisted on'y of a tunio and drawers. I made my clothes into a bundle and stowed them away in a cleft. Then like a cat I clambered up the rocks, hiding behind every projection, and keeping a fearful watch upon the sentinel at the head of the gully. ortunately the gully was not very :hed 1' deep. When! reached the top I crept on my hands and feet until I judged I was well out of sight, and started for the end of the Point. I took my time, for the moment of action, was long enough distant, and I had to husbana my strength. At last I reached the rock from which I meant to dart, and Bat down to wait for the lugger's signal "I did not know the time, and oouia only guess it by calculating from the sunset. How long should I have to wait? How long did I wait? Heaven knows, but it seemed an age. I got sleepy from my day's exertions. The night air was old, too and my clothing, admirably adapted for exercise, was somewhat scanty for sitting still. Besides, it was damp. The wretchedness of that long watch comes before me now. And, oh I would the slow minutes never pass? "I waited bo

long that I believed I

must have fallen asleep and missed the signal, and I was on the brink of burying my face in my hands and giving way to dispair, when I checked myself—and flash! far out on the dark sea, there it waB! I sprang to my feet, every nerve tingling. The moment for action had arrived. "I paused a moment to take the bearings of the buoy. I knew exactly how it lay from the Point, for I had swam around it often enough. But not in the dark. Not wiih the water a vast, heaving, black plain, mingling with the black sky. "But I never hesitated. In I went, and after a few strokes, the sense of vigorous exercise, exultation in physical power and skill, overcame my misivings. On I went, strugling hard to :eep my wits about me, in spite of the horror that would rush over my brain now and again. It was bard work too, for the tide was coming in, there were breakers in the shallows and in the channel the tide ran fast and strongOnce I all but gave up. I got out of the channel among the breakers, and the buffeting and banging bewildered me, so that I fell into a sort of panic. I threw myself on my back and in the very act, thanks to my practiced eyesight, I caught sight of the buoy. There it was, bobing up and down like a silly black cork.

I swam up to it and kept close by. It was like a friend in all this wild desolation of heaving sea. But now came the worst watch of the whole. The lugger must pass within hail of me, but what if my strength gave out? For it was ebbing fast. I had been without food for hours. I had walked many miles, and swimming is a most exacting exercise. Still, I was not go ing to give up at the last pinch, and I had my reward. "A little gl6am of parting waves, a black mass coming on, towering blacker than the darkness, and hailed them, 'White Swan, ahoy!' "A voice came from the darkness, 'White Swan it is who are you?' 'Lay-to, and throw a ropeover your starboard quarter.' "The lugger was only about thirty yards distant. I made my last effort and swam to her. A rope was thrown and they hauleu me on board, and I had just time to give my ware ing be fore I fell fainting on the deck. "When I came to myself, the last keg of our cargo was being lowered overboard. We we some little distance up the coaBt and floats were attached to the kegs so that we might be able to find theib again "So expeditiously was all this done that it was only some two hours afterwards that we beat cautiously up the channel with tbr flood, and cast anchor close to the mouth of the gully. All was perfectly still. We pulled ashore in our boat and stepped on land, when, in a moment, dark figures started up, lights flashed upon us, and we were surrounded by soldiers. 'In the king's name!' said the officer, coming forward. "It was a picturesque group, illuminated as it was by the flickering light of the torches which some of the soldiers carried. My tall, old grandsire, with his weather-beaten face and gray hair the boyish, handsome youn officer, bright with scarlet and gold am steel the stolid seamen in their blue jerseys and sou'westers the soldiers, with their bronzed faces and glittering accoutrements, and, I suppose, myself, disguised in a suit of oilskins arid a big sou'wester that covered my rebellious heart. "My grandfather said nothing when the young lieutenant ordered the sergeant to board the lugger, and only twinkle of his keen, gray eye showed hie enjoyment of the" scene. The Boldiers had to row, and clumsily enough they did it, provoking one of the stolid' seamen to a loud laugh, which he instantly suppressed. "The sergeant was back again pretty soon, his face, formerly red, now purple with wrath. "We've been made fools of sir 1' he exclaimed, saluting the lieutenant. 'Nothing on board, excepts some nets!' "The lieutenant's face fell for a moment then he looked amused at the sergeant's discomfiture. 'Search thom!' he said.. 'We'll make it sore!' "A conple of soHiera held my grandfather while the sergeant searched him, and found nothing. Nor did the others prove better worth examination. "I was hiding behind my grandfather's back, hoping to escape observation. But the bergeant caught me by the wrist. My grandfather interposed. "'There is nothing contraband on that boy!' said he, peremptorily. 'I'll soon see that,' answered the soldier, grasping my wrist until I could have screamed with pain. "My grandfather did not strike him, but administered a kind of pnsh with his heavy shoulder that sent the sergeant, big as he was, staggering some yards away. With the loosing of his hold I slipped and almost fell off went my sou'wester, and down, alas! came my long brown hair all over me. The young officer instantly stopped between the sergeant and me. 'I don't think we need search this youngster, sergeant,' he said, ins tone of quiet authority. 'He 1b not likely to have anything contraband about him.i Where have you been to-night?' he added, turning to my grandfather while I got into the background, greatly confused and conscious that.the officer had found me out.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. SUNDAY MORNlWg, JANUARY 80, 1884.

"Lobster fishing/ answered my grandfather, composedly. 'Not much sport, I'm afraid,' said the lieutenant, sarcastically. 'Oh, yes we caught a few,' answered my grandfather, glancing round at the soldiers' coats. "The lieutenant was good-humored and could take a joke. 'Ah! but they're black when they're caught, said he with a smile that showed a very white and even set of teeth. 'Aye, aye, sir,' said my grandfather, with a twinkle in his eye again 'but they're red when they're done!' "The lieutenant laughed outright. 'You've got the best of us this time. Mr. WilBon,' said he, preparing to depart. 'But,' he added in a lower tone, •you had better be careful for the fu ture. Meanwhile, I am sorry to have troubled you. Good night.' "He pnt himself at the head of his men, gave a sharp, short order, and away they went. "And away we went. But my grandfather had learned a lesson. He was a rich man, and gave up the trade fjom that very night, sold the lugger, and retired into private life."

Here my grandmother paused, and looked at the general with a smile. "And did yon never see the lieutenant again?" inquired a young lady of fourteen, who had long brown hair, probably like grandmamma's was once. "My dear," said grandpapa, "I was the lieutenant."

THE THEATRES OP IjOICDOIf,

An ScormonsBusiness—TheLord Cbam» berlain'a Autocratlo Powers. There are thirty-six theatres in Lori don. They represent an investment upon land of over $200,000,000. Thr-y employ at least 10,000 persons—actors, stage handB and people in front of the house. These are in direct and con tinual service. The seating capacity is 75,000. The average attendance is 51,000. The average admission is Is. llid., or 38 cents. The average returns, then, is about £4,000. This is for every performance, which includes matinees. Most of the theatres give matinees—some of them two and even three a week. The lord chamberlain's piayrteader revises pFayB, exercises an autocratic authority over theatres,bullyrags managers and is decent or not as the spirit moves him. Let me say he is usually decent. His name is Mr. Pigot, an ex-barrister. He has an office down near St. James' Palace. His duties are to license plays, and when he has said a play cannot be put on that settles it there is nc appeal. Salmi Morse appealed from one court to another in New York, but had he applied to the lord chamberlain and received an adverse answer that would have ended the matter then and there, and he would have saved considerable money. Not that the lord chamberlain ever meddles with playB he is too important an official ior that, and the supervision of this branch of his duties is perfunctory, quite. He has charge of public buildings and palaces has an office at Westminster, and is a very high and mighty man all round but tbe play-reader is a retiring little chap, with, a literary turn of mind and a stern sense of duty. Whenever a play is to be produced it is sent to him with a fee of one guinea for each act. He immediately sends a receipt for the guineas, and that is the last you hear of them. Within a week you get notice whether you can play the piece or not, or if anything has got to be expurgated. It is not necessary for him to indicate why he will not allow any play or part of it he only says yes or no,"and there's an end. A short time ago a Canadian friend of mine sent in a melo-drama, in seven acts, to put before a London manager. The mangaer jumped at it and made preparation for its production, saying, "Oh the license is all right be won't interfere." But he did. The.play was sent around to him as soon as the parts were copied, and with them the necessary seven guineas. In a few days notice was sent to the manager that the piece could not be played. We went to see him and asked to make alterations. He said that he didn't mind telling us that the Irish scene wis the objectionable feature, and if we had a mind to cut that out and change the time of action, so that it would not deal with the government of to-day, he would permit itaproduction. Now the play bad only one Irish scene, and it dealt with a peaceful village where there was comparative prosperity, but out of which there subsequently came the thread of a plot. In London the troubles of the hero led to an appeal being made to the home secretary, who, by the way, is not represented, only referred to, and then not by name, and his refusal to interfere calls forth the effort to escape, and naturally enough leads to his being called "a hardhearted man." Beyond this there is no reference to him, but that was the ground upon the time of the action must be shifted. "Can I put it into the perion of the Beaconsfleld government?" said the manager. "That I cannot say until I have seen what you make it there." "Can I take it to a time when the uome secretary was an unpopular man "I can't tell you. This you can do, however. You can take it out of the reign of Queen Victoria. "But, bless me, that would spoil the play altogether. It of a necessity deals witn the present."

Well, the plav was not produced, and wont be. Why, at the pantomime at Drury Lane they had a cut made in the procession. It was arranged to have a tableau vivunt of 2,000 years of English history, beginning with William the Conqueror, all the kings and their queens to march down tbe stage with something typical of their reign, and so on. Well, they did not come further than William IV., because to proceed further would be to deal with public afiairs, and, in the minds of some, to create possibly a spirit of ridicule, so even the representation of Lord Beaconsfleld was not permitted. The offense under the law a case of this kind is one of the most serious. Treason—no less.

Taken full and large, the theaters are about the same in both countries (England and America), except that the ladies in the stalls and boxes of a London theater must take off their hats. It is a splendid thing, but, alas! they take off so much. One night, from a box in the Princess's, I looked down over the crowded stalls. The display would disgrace a French ball in New York, and anything that whi do that will lead to the abolition of tell word decency.

A Frozen Rooster.

New York Sun. Mr. Lovell, of Babylon, L. I, had a large Spanish rooster that he was very proud of. Last July, when it suffered with the heat, Mr. Lovell fed it with powdered ice, and it used frequently to be found waiting patiently at the door of the ice house for this refreshment. In September the ice house was closed for the^season, and soon afterward the rooster* was* missing. Last week the ice house was opened to be restocked, and Mr. Lovell's two little daughters straying into it were startled by seeing a great rooster standing on a block of ice, one leg drawn up into its feathers ana its wide-open eyes apparently fixed on them. Recognizing it at last as their own long-lost rooster, they approached it cautiously and found that was frozen hard. They carried it into the house where they balanced it, still on one leg, on the table, and waited for their father to come iiome, but before he arrived the heat of-the fire had done its work, and the bird's beautiful and life like appearance had gone.

Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, who has written so many harrowing«love tales, is a tall, spare woman, with a sad, erave face, and gray hair. She always dresses in black.

ORIGIN OFPOPUEjAR PHRASES.

[Written for the Globe-Democrat.] Broker.—The word broker come to us from the shores of the Baltic, where a braker, or a bracker, is a public inspector, whose duty it is to examine goods, report upon the quality, and reject any that may be damaged or unsound. In St. Petersburg, tallow is quoted with or without "brack," i.e.. brokerage. Bailey gives a curious explanation of the origin of the term broker. It is reproduced here, although its correctness is extremely doubtful: "Broker, of the word break, because in former times none but bankrupts were permitted to follow that'employment."

JJomance.—The Latin language ceased to bespoken in France about the ninth century, and was succeeded by a mixture of the language of the Franks and bad Latin, which was called the Romance language or dialect. Most of the early tales of chivalry being .written in that language were called. Romances." ,Hence tbe name given to maTvel9.cn or half-fabulous stories or poems. ..

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Tomb.—This word comes from "a Greek prase denoting a place where a dead body has been burnt and a mound of earth raised to cover the ashes. The Latin word tvmulue has almost the same signification. The Jewish tombs were generally hollows hewu out of the face of the rock.

Edify.—From the Latin fdei, a building, means to build up. "There *as holy chapel edified." From the same root we get tbe word edifice, a large building, ~a structure, a fabric.

This word was originally

written natky, probably in allusion to the filthy habits of the pig. In Finnish patki is a pig in Danish intake is to eat like a pig and in Swedish tnatkig is filthy.

Frail.-~Frail is probobly a contraction of fragile, and had originally the same meaning, i. e. brittle or easily broken.

Dtarett.—This word originally had the meaning which we now express by the word direst. Shakspeare makes Hamlet say. "Would I had met my dearest fOe in heaven." The word dfear, meaning "beloved" or "precious," is from the A nglo-Saxon deor but dear in the sense of the "hateful" is from dtrian, to hurt, Tbe Scotch have den, to annoy. :Detcant. We now confine the use of this word to its secondary meaning of speechifying, as "the honerable member then descanted at considerable length on the," etc. It was origl nally a nusical term for a song in parts for different voices, as opposed to "plain song." The cuckoo was said to sing plain song, and the nightingale to "descant."

Havoc.—Probably from the Celtic words adopted by the Anglo-Saxons, hafoc, a hawk, a bird which sometimes causes great havoc in a poultry yard. The Welsh cry out "hmi hafogV'.when a cow or other animal is committing waste in a neighbor's field. Shakspeare has: "Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war.

Knave.—A knave was anciently the name applied to a man servant. In some of the earlier translations of the Scriptures the epistles commence "Paul, a knave of Jesus Christ." The word was also used to designate one of the male sex, aa in Wyclififs translation of the Bible, when the verse Rev. xii. 5. is rendered "and (she) bare a knave child."

No House Without its Ailment.—A translation of the French proverb, "Nulle maison sant passion." It appears in the Tretor del Sentences Dorees, Diets, Troverbes, el Dictons Communs of Gabriel Murier, the Belgian grammarian (Lyon, 1577), as "Nulle Maison sans croix et passion," and is thence transferred into the collection of Le Roux de Lincy. The English proverbs: "Ihere is a death's-head in every cupboard," and "there is a skeleton in jevery household," have been pointed out as equivalents.

Thou Sleepett, but We Do Not Forget Thee.—'This line may be seen on vpious tombstones. It is an adaptation from Iliad, xxiii., 69, and is the opening of the speech of the shades of Patroclus to Achilles.

Aurora Borealis.—["Golden weather."] A translation of the 8eptuagint at Job xxxvi, 22. The Vulgate has "aurum," the Geneva Bible has "brightness," with this note: "In Ebrew, gold meaning faire weather and cleare as golde."

WAS IT PAULINE MARKHAM?

Decline of an Old-Time Fsmoni High Ktefaer. New Yorfc Truth.

I met a woman whose fame- for beauty, if not for ability, was limited a few years ago only by the boundaries Qf this country. Her form and face were theme* for rhapsodic praise, and her arm and voice caused one of America's most distinguished literati to in dulge in the most extravagant laudations that has ever been bestow ed upon an actress. Her diamonds were so numerous and costly that they attracted general attention, and altogether her prosperity was a source of envy to the poorer women of the stage who came in contact with her. It did not seem then that she could ever be in want of anything. But in the years that have intervened between that time and the present changes came, which showed how utterly falBe that appearance was. The particular line of theatrical business in which this woman became famous had its day, and the ever-fickle taste of the public demanded something new and something different. Tbe people who had been most lavish in their praise stowed her away in the lumberoft of forgotten things, only to be now and then recalled as a vision of animal loveliness. I met this woman the other day, as I have said. But about her there was no evidence of the pros*, perity which she had known. She was neatly but plainly dressed, and there was a bitterness in her speech wheih showed how keenly Bhe felt the great change in her circumstances. "I can not get an engagement anywhere, nor for anything," she said. I have applied to the agents so often only to be told that there was nothing for me. that I am sick at heart, and so avoid them as much as possible. People Beem to think that I am 100 years old, and because I waB once a burlesque actress that I can do nothing else. But I was brought up in an entirely different school. I played juvenile business in the same company with Henry Irving and Ellen Terry when they were net so well known as they are new, and I had the best legitimate training that the English stage could give. Nor am I-old. Thirty-five is not old, is it? And am I ugly?"

She asked this with a defiant bitterness she made no attempt to conceal, and, as I looked atber well proportioned figure and comely features, I had to acknowledge that uie looked neither old nor ugly. "But tbe moment my name is mentioned,'! she continued, "managers threw up their hands and exclaimed: She! Why, she was in the leg business years ago. What can she do? They take it for granted that I can do nothing, and bo

never give me a chance.

What am to do I don't know. Perhaps some dark night I will creep down to to the dock and end it all. I feel more than half in the humor sometimes." And, with a laugh that bad more of tears than merriment in it, she bad me adieu and went on up the crowded street, while tbe people turned to look after her, and whispered to each other a name that had once been most potent in drawing them to the theater.

Llebtg on Liquor.

French doctors almost invariably prescribe red wine rather than white, and Liabig bears them oat, as the following passage, found among his writings, proves: "The white wines are hurtfnl to the nervous system, causing trembling, confusion of language and convulsions. The strong-1 General," "Mrs. Commodore, etc ier wines, such as champagne their social programme,

rise quickly to the head, but their effects are only of short duration. Sherry and strong cider are more quickly intoxicating than the generality of wines, and they have a peculiar influence on the gastric juices of the stomach. The intoxication of beer is heavy and dnll, but its use does not hinder the drinker from gaining flesh. The drinkers of whisky and brandy are going to certain death. Red wine the least hurtfnl, and, in some cases, really beneficial."

Spanish Ball Fighting.

Harper's Weekly. At the Sunday bull-fight in Madrid in honor of the Crown Prince of Germany the bands played German airs exclusively while Lagartijo, the famous matador, was killing his first bull. Twenty thousand people looked on. The boxes were filled with the aristocracy of Madrid, the ladies wearing no bonnets, but, like the royal ladies, the national mantillas. The police wore mediwval costumes. The bulls that were killed were seven splendid animals from the breeding establishment of the Duke Veraguas, a descendant of Christopher Colum bus. Lagartijo's brother, the foremost of tbechulos, who bear tbe banderil las, was repeatedly in imminent dan ger. Says the Paris Daily Nows "Apart from the horrible killing of horses, which the toros literally disem bowelled, the performance was in no way execrable, human skill always proving superior to brute force. Home of the chulos had little birds inclosed in their banderillas, which the bull, on being wounded, tore away, thus liberating the birds, to the great amusement of the public." Lagartijo is rich. When he salute^ the crown prince he cried "Long live tho king, the crown prince, and the ugliest woman present in the circus to-night!" Among the pointed jokes of the crowd was one which is described as characteristic. A Span' iard, exasperated at the flight of chulo, cried: "Be not afraid you will become a captain of Uhlans!" The crown prince attended service in the chapel of the German legation before he went to the bull-fight. Lagartijo presented to the crown prince the swords with which he killed the bulls.

KNOCKED OCT IN ONE ROUND

A Young Lady Who Has a Good Op* portnnity to Get Up a Muscle The other day, says the Boston Globe, a very nice young lady who lives Bomewhere out on the line of the Providence road, while coming between the poBts at the Park square entrance to tbe common, accidentally collided with a man who was rushing blindly in the opposite direction. The stiff rim of his tall hat came in violent contact with the bridge of her nose. The young lady did not scream, nor call out for the police but, to the great astonishment of the owner the hat, suddenly drew off and hit him three sound blows on the shoulder. "There," she said, "hit nay nose again, you old clown, if you dare. He either did not dare or preferred not to, for after giving her a Dank look of amazement he trickled quietly across the square, occasionally looking back, and presently got out of sight. The incident was nearly forgotten by the young lady until yesterday it was vividly recallec to her mind when she opened, a Christmas box and found a pair of boxingloves and a pair of hard-wood dumb lells. A Blight Buspicion that there was some mysterious connection between this little remembrance and the encounter on the common dawned gradually upon her miad. She will probably proceed at once to get up her muscle, and the next time a man goes fooling with her nose, heayen help

Alive In a Coffin

JeffersonviUe, Ind, Special. Lucinda Neely, a well-known lady, prominent in religious and social circles, was taken very suddenly ill last Thursday night, and in two hours was pronounced dead. Heart disease, caused by acute, asthma, was assigned asthecauee of death. On account of the suddenness of the death the funeral was postponed till the very latest hour, and was set for this morn ing. A large concourse was in attend ance. The funeral sermon was preached.

Sorrowing friends had taken their last look at the face of their loved one, and the undertaker was about to replace the lid on the coffin, when a glance at the corpse ce nsed him to draw book with an exclamation o! horror. The friends were instantly restim moned to the coffin, and a shiver of ex. citement, ran through the audience, followed by the whisper, "she is not dead." A hasty consultation was held around the coffin, and tbe funeral of Mrs. Neely proceeded no further.

It appears that just as the coffin-lid was about to be placed over the face of tbe corpse, a flush as of a person in a desperate struggle for life, rose from her neck and overspread chin, cheek and brow. Every means is being used to bring Mrs. Neely out of her trance

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1. High Art. Aft army of young ladief, 'fcach of them not less than 5 feet eight inches in height, has been engaged by Mr. D'Oyly Carte as a bodyguard tor Miss Lilian Russell, who will sostain tbe principal character .in the new opera,

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